Facebook partially down, Anonymous claims responsibility

[ShareShiz]

Facebook partially down, Anonymous claims responsibility
By Owen Williams

Right now, some users are reporting that Facebook is down while others are reporting itermittent issues, but it appears to be widespread. The company keeps track of API errors and slow load times of the developer website and those have almost tripled in the last few minutes.

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After Attack

It appears the issues only affect users in particular countries, as Facebook's servers are distributed around the world. Downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports that Facebook is "down" at time of writing.

AnonSec has claimed responsiblity for the issues, citing a DDOS attack underway. Anonymous had an attack planned for January 28, making this attack 3 days ahead of schedule.

Update: It looks like the site is recovering, slowly. Load times are still high, but most can access the site now.

 

[SuicidalMedia]

Media like that makes me commit suicide.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwugrEwmg7Y[/ame]

 

[ms7]

This is stupid.. they wanna put down facebook, and let google taken over?
I really dont wanna know who is behind this so-called hackers of freedom or something.

 

[MediaStar]

fk off facebook

 

[DJboutit]

Anonymous keeps say in one of there IRC chat rooms not to fuck with the Facebook WTF

 

[Mr Happy]

It's a fraction group of Anonymous and it's nothing serious.

 

[Suhel]

Who the fuck is the real Anonymous?

 

[World Life]

Which one's the real one?? :o

 

[Mr Happy]

Who the fuck is the real Anonymous?

I remember a 16 year old Dutch kid being the first arrested a few years ago for the paypal and visa crap. Now it doesn't really have leaders or anything. It's just a random group of bored kids.

 

[ShareShiz]

^the 16 year old was the mastermind behind all script kiddies

 

[Smith]

If he was such mastermind he wouldn't be arrested in first place.

 

[Hot_Shot]

Damn.... i wonder if they were in 20-30's ... they would have made some BIG Headlines.

 

[Mr Happy]

LOL I haven't seen this in well over a year. I wonder if it's related

 

[Sonic]

Twitter.com not loading now

 

[Myth?]

I'm going with the anonops twitter.

 

[Nitish]

happy i have seen that twitter overloading page quite a few times. Its an internal issue and not by anonymous

 

[foxman]

anonymous sounds like fun!

 

[ceekeigh]

Why is that there are a lot of them? Who's the real who?

 

[Roy.]

Who the fuck is the real Anonymous?

Twitter @anonops

All the others are pointless.

 

[ceekeigh]

Others are just riding with the fact that Anonymous is making news nowadays.